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...Rumbaut and Kenji Ima of San Diego State University. They found that in overall grade-point averages, virtually every Asian-American group outscored the city's white high school juniors and seniors. Many Asian-American students excel in the arts, from photography to music. New York City's famed Juilliard School has a student body estimated to be 25% Asian and Asian American. Juilliard President Joseph Polisi rejects the view that Asian students are uniquely talented. "It's not just being Asian that makes them good musicians," he says. "It's a matter of dedication, family support and discipline...
Alan Greenspan has always been bold enough to make momentous changes in his life. After studying music at Manhattan's prestigious Juilliard School and touring for a year as a clarinet and saxophone player in a dance band, he decided at age 19 to forsake his musical career for college and the arcane discipline of economics. Eight years later, while studying for his Ph.D. at Columbia University, Greenspan abandoned academia to become a partner in a new consulting firm. In 1974, having never held a government position, the economist waltzed into Washington as chairman of President Gerald Ford's Council...
...sampled it, even carving time out of her hectic schedule to visit Professor Jennifer Whiting's Philosophy 105 class on Aristotelian thought. She says she had always been interested in philosophy, but never had a chance to take any such classes at the Juilliard School...
...interpretations of Schumann and Chopin. Unlike those Soviet emigres who left their homeland seeking greater personal freedom and artistic success, Davidovich came to the U.S. for only one reason: to be with her son, Violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, 30, who left the Soviet Union in 1977 to study at the Juilliard School in New York. "My son is my life," explains the quintessential Jewish mother, a widow since 1958. "I couldn't live without seeing...
Glass returned at a time of remarkable artistic ferment (see box). In the late '60s Reich, a Juilliard classmate, had codified early minimalist theory in such works as It's Gonna Rain and Come Out. Wilson was staging The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud. Minimalist Sculptor Richard Serra (see ART), an acquaintance from Paris, was preparing a one-man exhibition in New York. Reich had already formed an ensemble, and he and Glass sometimes joined forces. A pair of 1969 concerts at the Whitney Museum of American Art attracted public and critical attention to the burgeoning phenomenon of minimalism...